Napoleon's brilliant victories in Germany were clouded by an irretrievable disaster to his fleet, which occurred only two days after the engagement at Ulm.
They sent Gylippus, an able commander, whose generalship contributed largely to the total and irretrievabledefeat that the Athenians finally suffered.
The immediate nomination of a Caliph, or lieutenant appointed to continue the Prophet's task, could alone preventirretrievable disaggregation.
How many thousands of soldiers must he gather together so as not to court irretrievable disaster?
He would not have been wretched even if the discomfiture of his hopes for the Commonwealth had been as final and as irretrievable as his biographer supposes.
Of one great and irretrievable error Cromwell was guilty--he died before his hour.
So here we have the proof, that in a season of perfect calm, the Ministry commenced a policy for the "irretrievable alienation" of the Ameer, and sent Lord Lytton to India in order to execute it.
The Ameer was to be "irretrievably alienated" by menacing his independence; and then the "irretrievable alienation" was to be made the pretext for carrying the menace into execution.
There was in his bosom a consciousness of the fallacy, of the futility, we might say, of all human calculations, which produced an undefined dread of rendering his schemes irretrievable by once making the charge to any one.
He had hesitated at the first step; but that irretrievable first step was now taken, and he did not regret it.
Many of his adherents deserted him, and the Chinese warrior who had never known defeat was brought to the brink of irretrievable disaster.
True it is, that unless Heaven stops us in our mad career, we shall plunge intoirretrievable ruin.
This was a desperate remedy, and by a miracle only was I saved from utter and irretrievable ruin.
When I went to sea, I ceased to think about them, concluding there was no love lost; but when I found that death had for ever robbed me of two of them, I felt the irretrievable loss.
But next day proving stormy, and the boat not appearing, we much feared she was lost, which would have been an irretrievable misfortune to us all.
Of course, a dry year would make necessary a larger crew and more labour; of course, a big flood might sweep the logs past all defences into the lake for an irretrievable loss.
Outhouse says that you have done her an irretrievable injury by going down to Devonshire to her, and by writing to her.
I share the great sorrow which overshadows the land; I fully appreciate the irretrievable loss.
There came over him again the feeling he had at the hospital when they talked together last, that whatever might come of all the tragedy and sorrow around them they two must face irretrievable loss.
This may do for the North, but I should conjecture that something more than a pumpkin-lantern is required to scare manifest and irretrievable Destiny out of her path.
Its consequences extended disastrously through many years, and involved a vast number of innocent persons in irretrievable ruin.
What wonder that such connexions should have compelled him for a time to become an exile to his country, and on his return involved him in a transaction that has ended in irretrievable ruin and disgrace?
By one rash childish act had this fondled youth, to all appearance, brought upon the house of Israel irretrievable disgrace, if not complete extinction.
There are no flattering words--no daubing with untempered mortar--no keeping back the full truth as to nature's total and irretrievable ruin.
It is not a vain effort to reconstruct an irretrievable ruin.
As a matter of fact, the death of Yakoob Beg was an irretrievable disaster, for it destroyed whatever cohesion and unity there were in the country.
The whole army then broke and fled in irretrievable confusion, leaving more than a thousand of their number on the ground.
